...In the passage Last Child in the Woods, the author, Richard Louv implements rhetorical strategies and literary devices to convey that people are becoming more and more distant from nature through advancements in technology over time. Richard Louv starts the passage off by introducing the idea of genetic technology through which scientists can choose the color that appear on butterfly wings. Louv goes on to exaggerate this idea by comparing this discovery to the idea of how companies advertise their brand in nature, by “stamp[ing] their messages into the wet sands of public beaches” (Louv 9-10). This sponsorship in nature is impeding one from fully experiencing nature. Through the idea of manipulating nature, Louv is appealing to pathos as...
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...McQueen creates prolonged, unflinching images of slave torture and suffering, lingering on graphic scenes of brutality, including whipping, hanging, beatings, and rape. In fact, in the very act of attempting to resolve the ambiguity of McQueen’s images, this competing discourse strangely repeats and performs the very paradox of realism itself. In this way, the discourse surrounding McQueen’s realist images of the trauma and violence of slavery perform a fundamental split that continuously reflects and implicates the images themselves. This analysis contextualizes the paradoxical instability of McQueen’s realist images of the trauma and violence of slavery and the discourse that surrounds them within a larger lineage of the history and politics imbedded in the depiction of slavery within visual culture. The audience is confronted simultaneously with the violence of slavery as well as with the inherent impossibility of its representation, this analysis probes the ways in which McQueen’s realist images actively resist and exceed the historical frame, getting at fundamental questions of trauma and representation in...
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...Tate Bennett Professor Jack Wood COMM3300 7/11/2024 Genre Criticism: Barack Obama Introduction Many politicians have come up with a slew of slogans for their campaigns. Slogans like “All the way with L.B.J.” for Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign, “This time vote like your whole world depended on it” for Richard Nixon’s campaign, and “Stronger together” for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. These are all examples of a rhetorical artifact that fits within a political-slogan-type genre. For my second paper, I will be analyzing Barack Obama’s slogan from his 2008 campaign. His slogan is as follows: “Change We Can Believe In” (Obama 2008). I believe this slogan follows the proper guidelines and structure of the many political slogans that have come before...
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...Theren Woods 4/14/2015 Module 3 lab Speech Analysis 1. What is the thesis statement ? The purpose of this statement was to help black and white people come together and be peaceful all around the world. Plus he mention the dream he had one night when we as blacks and whites and different race would be around each other and live life beautifully but the racist stuff would have to stop. He gave a very powerful speech and it means a lot still to this day. 2. Give the context of the speech. Why was it given? What historical events led to the speech? The context of the speech was made in Washington D.C. and it was brought upon blacks fighting for their rights in America. It was given so every race could be aware of the horrible ways African American people were being treated. The historic events that led to the speech was in 1955 blacks where getting treated like they were not even human. Also they couldn’t walk into any bathroom; they had to go to the restrooms that said colored. They couldn’t vote so they had to fight for those rights. And some whites just didn’t agree with being in the same area or room the African Americans was in. 3. How do rhetorical patterns help the author support his or her argument? It helps real well. It gives the author some time to plan how he’s going to support the discussion of winning the argument. Plus it move’s other individual’s attention stating if they can try to develop a closer analysis of what the writer or speaker...
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...“The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding” The idea of winning and succeeding is described differently by different people from different walks of life. In his Ted Talk, “The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding”, John Wooden makes the statement that a person can win every game of every season and not succeed due to marginal ideals placed upon a team by the school district. John Wooden challenges the idea of a person realizing that perfect grades or ideals do not exist to everyone and do not apply to everyone. He challenges the idea that God created every person in a different way with a different ability to learn and grow. Wooden earns the right to be heard through his techniques used in his talking and through the rhetorical analysis...
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...criticism holistically. To practice the skills of a rhetorical critic. To teach someone about how this particular, significant message works. As a critic, you will closely examine the message, analyze it, and develop some insight about how it functions. This insight will become the claim that controls your essay. Remember, what you write is the report (product) of your thinking and insights discovered. To get to that point, you must engage in four kinds of critical thinking: description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation (process). You will select, edit, and organize portions of all your thinking in each of these areas in order to teach the reader how the message works. So, your in-class paper will reflect these kinds of thinking, but the paper will be an integrated whole rather than a list or string of critical activities. Assume you have a reader who does not know what you are doing, why or how. Thus, you must define terms and elaborate on your ideas, showing the reader how your ideas relate to one another. Listed below are the specific criteria (rubric) by which the essay will be graded: 1) The essay contains an introduction that describes the context of the message and characterizes the message. (10 pts) 2) The critic states a reasonable, arguable claim about how the message works. The claim must go beyond what any average reader could conclude after encountering the message and feature the rhetorical dynamics discovered in the message. (20 pts) ...
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...Advertisement Analysis In the Dos Equis advertisement on the front page, the creator uses numerous techniques to make their drink seem to be the best of the best. This ad shows an older man in his seventies wearing luxurious clothes and smoking a cigar while being surrounded by two women who can’t seem to get their eyes off him. In front of him are two bottles of dos equis beer that are opened. The creator uses not only words but also colors and detail to mold their ad as being the best. Before even creating the ad, the creator had to still take into consideration the rhetorical triangle. In this case, the subject is a great-tasting beer, the audience are the buyers who are looking to purchase an alcohol and finally the speaker in this ad is the elderly man in the center or who the world knows him by, the most interesting man in the world. The ad appeals to ethos by using the “most interesting man in the world in it”. The man’s ethos is strong mainly due to his title that the world has given him. As being the most interesting in the world, he must keep that title even when choosing his alcohol choice. For pathos, it is not as strong as ethos, but his conviction his face truly shows it. The man’s face has a serious look in the commercial, but he is only trying to pick his beer of choice. Finally, for logos, this beer tastes good and looks satisfying. While looking at this ad you must observe and realize that this is no ordinary beer, it is a distinctive beer for costumers that...
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...Elizandro A Mendiola 9/24/2013 Kantz Response What Kantz says as in her main points are that people think just because it’s in a text or in a text book it’s a fact. She also said we read to transmit and receive information. When we do an argumentative essay it usually means that we are supposed to argue something and most of the times we end up retelling the story in a more descriptive manner. We are supposed to question everything rather than agree of follow along with everything. Another thing she said was that rhetorical reading is not a magical technique for producing sophisticated papers. I think she is correct because it has happened to me when I am supposed to do like a document based question where I have to read and analyze something it is harder for me to first understand and then try to ask questions about it to myself and think about how this can lead to further analysis. She also mentions that it is hard to read texts and then try to write something off it without telling the story which has been proven for me to be hard. Sometimes we think that the task is do something but we are so used to just analyzing something for its content and then writing about it rather than going in depth and actually making it an argumentative essay. This also helps me understand because one time I just decided to put whatever on an essay prompt because I figured I just have to know the college rather than understand and analyze the article that it was about. However now I know...
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...There is little action; rather there is a call for concern and involvement in crucial issues. Leila Brammer says that “Ecofeminists do participate in the formation of ideology and recruitment in that, conferences and books are explicitly for the development and spread of ecofeminist thought. The message has spread . . . But, Ecofeminism has not resulted in collective action in a way Black Power as a philosophy did . . . Rhetorical analysis is the key to understanding phenomena like ecofeminism because their manifestation is rhetorical( Brammer 1-2). In phenomena like Ecofeminism ideology and meaning are more important than structure. People use new words or attribute new meaning to old words in order to express their thoughts and feelings, thus exhibiting a consciousness of their environment in the meanings. One’s feelings fuse with the symbols and images which carry the feeling in communication and sustain it over time. One is led into a pshychodramatic fantasy world, in which meaning in present, reality becomes clearer and involves others with similar...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Many agree that exploiting impoverished people as a source for cheap labor and consequentially cheap products is a morally unacceptable practice. However, the problem of sweatshops remains prominent in our globalized world. Tara J. Radin and Martin Calkins explore this problem in “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business” by breaking down their essay into two primary sections. The first describes the difficulties of both external and internal forces in permanently discarding sweatshops while the second division highlights the complexity behind any plausible solution. While the content of this article is of elevated interest, more important for our purpose is the success behind their rhetoric. They utilize the emotions of an audience on an already sensitive topic while simultaneously providing evidence from a variety of environments and sources to point out that their conclusive recommendations are of great value when the urge to change the manner in which we get products finally sets in. In their essay “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business”, Radin and Calkins both inform and persuade their audience at an effective level through their credibility, emotion, and logic—ethos, pathos, and logos, respectively—to conclusively come about at more fully understanding the need for reform in global labor markets. I will first define ethos followed by an analysis and illustration of the rhetoric...
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...* * * * Home * Mandy's Book Mart * Authors & Books * Author Spotlight * Book Reviews * Welcome to Mandy's Pages * Letters from Mandy * Site Map * Writer's Corner * Friday's Stars * The Blogging Booth * Reading Room * Literary Lounge * Resources * Terms of Service * Writing Guidelines * Mandy's Market * Contests * Annual Tanka Contest * Tanka Time * Where Tanka Prose Grows Poetry Analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Written by Kerry Michael Wood User Rating: / 9 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form PoorBest Bottom of Form Poetry Analysis: Those Winter Sundays (Poem by Robert Hayden) I met Bob Hayden in the late 1970s when I, a callow high-school teacher, joined him and others in a textbook authorship project. I was in awe of the former poet laureate of Senegal and later America's first black poet laureate. A soft-spoken gentleman behind thick-lensed glasses, he put me at ease with his unassuming camaraderie. He didn't speak much about himself. Other co-authors and editors sketched for me his early life: the fact that he had no birth certificate but was born with the name Asa Bundy Sheffey of parents who then separated; how at 18 months he was given to next-door neighbors who renamed him, though he was never legally adopted; how once he became a...
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...Analysis 1.1: Understanding Rhetorical Structure Cesar Diaz-Medina EN1420 ITT-Technical Institute, 054 Arizona bills require police to wear body cameras What is happening in the Old Pueblo? Tucsonan’s all over the city are in a state of distress over the recent but dramatic crime wave that has struck the City. “In the wake of several high-profile police shooting deaths, two bills have been introduced in the Arizona Legislature this session calling for all law-enforcement officers to wear body cameras,” ( Patrick McNamara para. 1). The real question on many citizens’ minds is “to who are these bills really protecting and how are we benefiting?” In response Rep. Reginald Bolding, D-Phoenix had to this say “The genesis of the bill comes from the community distrust issues that we’ve seen,”. (McNamara para. 3). So due to the increase of crime in Tucson and the general distrust from the people towards law enforcement, the government would have the general public believe that the implementation of body cameras on every police officer is in the people’s best interest. For many concerned Tucsonan’s this is nothing more than to suppress the people and misuse city funds when it can very well be used in more beneficial ways, one example given was “have you driven through South Tucson lately?” She explains how the roads are all full of patches and potholes as opposed to being repaved. United States Marine Jim McCoy shared his thoughts on the matter “If anyone should be wearing body...
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...that is forever blowing through one’s head” states Mark Twain in his autobiography (Twain, Wit 78). Twain certainly had a “storm of thoughts,” but he was able to eloquently and succinctly put those thoughts onto paper. Because he wrote a combination of fiction and nonfiction, it is difficult to categorize Mark Twain as an author. According to Neil Schmitz, Mark Twain was, “a southern humorist gone over, not just a deserter, a dissenter, but a literary scalawag, a southern writer in unionist discourse and narrative” (91). Most people recognize Twain’s brief, witty, straightforward proverbs that are often quoted today. He also wrote many novels, a few nonfiction books, a plethora of short stories, and essays. Mark Twain uses a variety of rhetorical devices including carefully chosen, colorful language, satirical tone, and unique symbolism to entertain and to enlighten his readers about the moral dilemmas and the beauty of the America he knew. According to Ernest Hemingway, all of American literature comes from one great book, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Huck Finn vii). Although this statement may seem hyperbolic, it does indicate the important place Mark Twain holds in American literature. Early Nineteenth century American writers tended to try to write like English writers with flowery, ostentatious language (Schmitz 100). Twain’s writing style was innovative when it was written and is still absolutely unique. He writes with simple prose and careful word...
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...integrated football teams with a black head coach in the south. T.C. Williams was a strictly white school until another school nearby, an all black school, had joined T.C. Williams. The men were not getting along whatsoever due to the common issue of racism. It was still unacceptable in many peoples point of views for blacks and whites to share the same rights. Not only was this team biracial, the head coach was African American. The previous head coach was white, but was demoted down to assistant when Boone became head. Due to this, many including the former head coach had a lot of animosity toward Boone. In one of the scenes, without a doubt the turning point in the movie, Coach Boone has his football team run at 3 in the morning through the woods and mud to the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. Once there, Boone begins delivering the impactful speech to the men, trying to make them realize that they need to work together or they will destroy each other. “Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today.” The war had been fought over a hundred years ago, and these young men were still fighting over the same issues that many had died because of. Boone wants the players to “take a lesson from the dead,” and come together to overcome this issue of segregation and racism because they see how it turned out for the men that did not do so. “Hatred destroyed my family,” as it would destroy their team that should be just...
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...Literary Non-Fiction: Speeches Rhetorical Devices: Repetition is the repeated use of the same word or phrase—usually for emphasis. Parallelism is the repetition of similar words, phrases, sentences, or grammatical structure. * Shows that ideas are related or equally important. * Helps to stress a phrase or idea. Aphorisms are expressions of an opinion or a general truth. Epigraphs are a quotation from the beginning of a book, chapter, or section of a book, used to emphasize a point and usually related to the theme. Reading Skill: Comparing and Contrasting: Writers often make their points by comparing and contrasting subjects. (Noting their similarities and differences) Background Information: Not everyone agrees on what we should teach or on how it should be taught. Often what is considered important to learn depends on where and when we’re living. For example, the speech and letter that follow were written before Native American cultures received much respect from European Americans. Native American leaders have had to argue that their culture, language, history, and way of life are useful knowledge. In the 1700s, the British and the French were competing for land and resources in North America. English colonists thought that by offering Iroquois boys the chance to attend the university in Virginia, they would convince the Iroquois to support their side. Chief Canasatego of the Onondaga Tribe was an influential leader in the Iroquois Confederacy, a group...
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